Comment by skinkestek
4 days ago
Probably true if you’re an advanced user using a machine with American language pack.
Personally, I stick with LibreOffice. The biggest win? It doesn’t aggressively mangle my data by assuming everything is a U.S. date that needs “fixing.”
And don’t get me started on how Excel insists that, just because my employer gave me a Norwegian-language Mac, every formula should now be written in some half-baked, poorly documented pseudo-Norwegian formula language.
The one tool I do miss? Outlook.
Just set your preferred UI language to English in System Settings - Language and Region and Excel will honor that
There's probably some similar system setting for the date format
> Just set your preferred UI language to English in System Settings – Language and Region and Excel will honor that
That might work - assuming IT policies don’t block it - but it could easily break a bunch of other things on my machine.
> There's probably a similar system setting for the date format
Maybe. But I’ve been a power user for 30 years (counting from my first full Windows restore), and I taught my first IT course in the late ’90s - so if there is an easy fix, I’m honestly kind of impressed with my own ability to miss it.